By: Marcel Schwob
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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By: Antony Beevor
Format: 490 pages, Paperback
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more
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"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945
By: Edmundo Valadés
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dieciocho cuentos excelentes de uno de los maestros del género en México. Su prosa, aligerada por l… read more
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"Cuando uno ha dejado que la erosión del fracaso destruya los grandes anhelos, se deja dominar por los pequeños, que resultan ser más fuertes, más apremiantes."-Edmundo Valadés, La muerte tiene permiso
"Cuando llego a casa y me descubre, sonríe alegremente y me tiende su prodigiosa ternura, como si yo fuera todos los días un feliz hallazgo para ella, cuando ella lo es siempre para mi"-Edmundo Valadés, La muerte tiene permiso
"Epigmenio se puso a pensar. ¿Había perdido algo? ¿Le faltaba algo? Cuando alguien se hace esas preguntas precisamente frente a la barra de una cantina, lo inevitable es que pida otra copa. Y que se s…"-Edmundo Valadés, La muerte tiene permiso
"Y puedo ver lo que es el supersueño -joyas, pieles, perfumes, batas de seda, anillos, cuadros, automóviles- calculado por hombres que hablan el idioma del precio y que no conciben la vida gratuita de…"-Edmundo Valadés, La muerte tiene permiso
By: Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di … read more
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"Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux."-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
"Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingt…"-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
By: José Emilio Pacheco
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
El principio del placer reúne seis cuentos y una novela corta que le da título al libro. En ella un… read more
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"Qué idiotez sentir celos, cómo voy a exigir fidelidad a quien no tiene compromiso alguno conmigo, ni siquiera soñó en este encuentro, sería terrible enamorarme de ella, qué diablos, siempre me pasa l…"-José Emilio Pacheco, El principio del placer
"Hoy quemé tu carta. La única carta que me escribiste. Y yo te he estado escribiendo, sin que tú lo sepas, día a día. A veces con amor, a veces con desolación, otras con rencor. Tu carta la conozco de…"-José Emilio Pacheco, El principio del placer
"...segunda noche, nit, de no dormir, pienso en ella, Isabel estará pensando en el novio que dejó en Barcelona, idiotez sentir celos, cómo voy a exigir fidelidad a alguien que no tiene compromiso algu…"-José Emilio Pacheco, El principio del placer
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more
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"When you're dead you're dead."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Anne Perry , Sidney Paget , Maria Buitoni Duca
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this, one of the most famous of Doyle's mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage gho… read more
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"The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?"-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
"Watson: "You may be right." Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
By: Agatha Christie
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
Strapped by a chauffeur's wages, Michael Rogers' want of a better life seems out of reach. Especial… read more
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By: Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling au… read more
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"El problema es que no nos creen."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Hace años que Lala decidió ser mujer y brasileña, pero había nacido varón y uruguayo."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Me acuerdo de la risa de mi madre, de lo joven que era esa tarde de verano, del olor a champú de limón de su pelo y de la carcajada de chicle de menta."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Apagábamos las luces y jugábamos en la oscuridad con inciensos encendidos; parecían luciérnagas y a mí me hacían llorar, me hacían acordar a una casa de tejas con parque lejos de la ciudad, una casa …"-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
By: Paul Auster
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
The second book in the acclaimed New York Trilogy--a detective story that becomes a haunting and ee… read more
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By: Paul Auster
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, City of Glassinaugurates an intriguing N… read more
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By: Antony Beevor
Format: 494 pages, Paperback
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more
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By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
By: Jorge Ibargüengoitia
Format: None pages, Paperback
Si al despertarse, Simon Corona se hubiera vuelto a su casa, los crimenes de Las Poquianchis habria… read more
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By: Ermilo Abreu Gómez
Format: 116 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Presents a fictionalized account of the adventures of Jacinto Canek, a leader of the revolt of the … read more
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"En la fe el espíritu descansa; en la razón vive; en el amor goza; sólo en el dolor adquiere conciencia."-Ermilo Abreu Gómez, Canek
"Nunca tengas miedo de tus lágrimas. Ningún cobarde llora. Sólo los hombres lloran. Además, hijo, las lágrimas siempre caen de rodillas."-Ermilo Abreu Gómez, Canek
"Los blancos hicieron que estas tierras fueran extranjeras para el indio; hicieron que el indio comprara con su sangre el aire que respira."-Ermilo Abreu Gómez, Canek
"Dicen que el cuerpo es como el armario donde se guarda el alma. Está bien. Sin embargo, a veces, el alma es tan grande que el cuerpo, como grano de anís, se guarda en el alma."-Ermilo Abreu Gómez, Canek
By: Roberto Bolaño
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
<>se narra un viaje a Acapulco que se convierte paulatinamente en un des-censo a los infiernos. En … read more
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By: Angela Carter
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
Format: 288 pages,
On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a sm… read more
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By: E.L. Doctorow
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tape… read more
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"It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them."-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
"It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction."-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
"You're nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the conditions in which you found yourself and you triumphed."-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
"Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
By: Manuel Puig
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glitt… read more
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"¿Qué pasa que a veces alguien dice algo y conquista para siempre a otra persona?"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"– Io non ci credo alla faccenda del godi e non pensare al domani, Molina. Nessuno gode senza pensare al domani. Va bene solo per il paradiso terrestre."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be…"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
By: Maurice Leblanc , Michael Sims , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780143104865. The suave adventures o… read more
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"A woman was looking at me, Ganimard, and I loved her. Do you fully understand what that means: to be under the eyes of a woman that one loves? I cared for nothing in the world but that."-Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief (Arsène Lupin, #1)
"So much the better if no one can ever say with absolute certainty: There is Arsene Lupin! The essential point is that the public may be able to refer to my work and say, without fear of mistake: Arse…"-Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief (Arsène Lupin, #1)
"Arsène Lupin, the eccentric gentleman who operates only in the chateaux and salons, and who, one night, entered the residence of Baron Schormann, but emerged empty-handed, leaving, however, his card …"-Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief (Arsène Lupin, #1)
By: Fernando Pessoa , Teresa Rita Lopes , None
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
La hora del Diablo es un relato fascinante de Fernando Pessoa. Un dialogo entre Satan y Maria, madr… read more
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By: Agatha Christie
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She… read more
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"Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Because when you’re in love, you think you’re invincible. It blinds you. And you don’t seem to care."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a…"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
By: Mariana Enríquez
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Bajar es lo peor, la primera novela de Mariana Enriquez, publicada en 1995, de reciente reaparición… read more
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By: Neil Gaiman
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 0060515236 (ISBN13: 9780060515232). Fragile Things is … read more
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"Words can wound, and wounds can heal."-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
"We save our lives in such unlikely ways."-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
"I was not so old that I would deny my own senses."-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
By: Layla Martínez
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Todas las casas guardan la historia de quienes las han habitado. Las paredes de esta casa perdida e… read more
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"Solo había tenido un hombre, pero ya había sido suficiente. Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, esto también lo sabemos bien en esta casa."-Layla Martínez, Carcoma
By: Mariana Enríquez
Format: 588 pages, Hardcover
A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. … read more
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"Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama."-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
"They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead."-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
"Nothing can hurt you now, how long was now, how long did the present last?"-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
"Detestaba cuando la gente se reía de esas fiestas donde la gente trataba de ser feliz."-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
By: Alejandro Zambra
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
En Santiago de Chile, a principios de los años noventa del pasado siglo, dos quinceañeros, Gonzalo … read more
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"fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"Decir que eso la felicidad: nunca sentir que sería mejor estar en otra parte, nunca sentir que sería mejor ser alguien más. Otra persona. Alguien más joven, más viejo. Alguien mejor."-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser pa…"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobe…"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more
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"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
By: Sara Mesa
Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition
La historia de Un amor ocurre en La Escapa, un pequeño núcleo rural donde Nat, una joven e inexpert… read more
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By: Marcel Schwob
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
«Como aquel español que por la virtud de unos libros llegó a ser «don Quijote», Schwob, antes de ej… read more
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